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The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature

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Elisa Bizzotto I.U.A.V.

Flavio Gregori Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Language: en

Published: Dec. 21, 2020

Keywords

Virginia Woolf • Monsters • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Robert Louis Stevenson • Monstrous births • Genre • Ruyard Kipling • Joseph Conrad • Aesthetics • Escapism • Horace Walpole • Elizabethan England • Form • Supernatural Horror • The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ghost Story • Narrative • The Sublime • Uncanny • Wells • Late-Victorian Context • Supernatural • Religious and political propaganda • Gothic • Mysticism • Psycho-acoustic ambience • Gothic novel • Mimetic Dimension • Transatlantic literature • Border-crossing • Vampire • Gothic Novel • The ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’ • Narrative Annexe • Geopoetics • Empiricism • Spiritualism • Fantastic • Romance • Islands • Stevenson • Olalla • Doyle • Fin de siècle • Aesthetic Culture • Henry James • Foley effects • Marvellous • George Eliot • Street literature • Realism • Deformed pigs • Edmund Burke • Space • Victorian Era • The Castle of Otranto • Ann Radcliffe • Hybridity

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2020/01

Copyright: © 2020 Elisa Bizzotto, Flavio Gregori. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Introduction

Introduction: The Supernatural between Fact and Fiction, from the Gothic to the Fin de Siècle

Flavio Gregori Elisa Bizzotto

Dec. 21, 2020

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Section 1. The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature

Foley Effects in the Gothic

Sound in The Castle of Otranto

John Bender

Dec. 21, 2020

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The Supernatural Subject of the Sublime in Burke and Radcliffe: A Reading of The Mysteries of Udolpho

Zak Watson

Dec. 21, 2020

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“Things that Make One Doubt if They be Mad or Sane”

Coping with the Monstrous in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Laura Giovannelli

Dec. 21, 2020

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Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire

“Olalla” (1885) as ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’

Angelo Riccioni

Dec. 21, 2020

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Beyond the Boundaries of Realism

Monstrous Islands and Literary Hybrids at the Fin de Siècle in Conan Doyle’s, R. L. Stevenson’s and H. G. Wells’s Fiction

Julie Gay

Dec. 21, 2020

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Realism and the Supernatural in Ghost Stories of the Fin de Siècle

Nick Freeman

Dec. 21, 2020

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Section 2. Miscellany

“Our Filthy Liues in Swines are Shewd”: Deformed Pigs, Religious Disquiet and Propaganda in Elizabethan England

Luca Baratta

Dec. 21, 2020

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Literary Transmigration

George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Spirit of Transatlantic Exchange

Rebecca Soares

Dec. 21, 2020

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Table of contents

Introduction

Section 1. The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature

Section 2. Miscellany